PMI PMP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

PMI PMP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 2101:

  A large multi-national company works on a project in an emerging-economy country. All business matters are conducted in local currency. During the course of the project, the budget becomes the primary concern due to currency instability in the country.

  What should the project manager do next?

  A. Evaluate the situation with the team
  B. Escalate the risk to the project sponsor
  C. Use the project's contingency reserve
  D. Ask for additional budget from the client
  C. Use the project's contingency reserve

• Question 2102:

  A project manager sent the first communication about the project management plan to the team. The next day, two field engineers were asking about their roles and the project schedule. What should the project manager have done?

  A. Confirmed that the communication was understood and solicited feedback from the team
  B. Sent the roles and responsibilities matrix along with the project management plan
  C. Discussed the roles with the managers to help explain them to their team members
  D. Briefed each team member on their roles before sending the project management plan
  A. Confirmed that the communication was understood and solicited feedback from the team

• Question 2103:

  A project manager is working on a hybrid project and is responsible for ensuring the design, build, and delivery of the software is completed in an agile way. How should the project manager plan the iteration?

  A. Use a work breakdown structure (WBS) with firm start and end dates for all phases to ensure nothing is missed.
  B. Use a kanban board as an information radiator to manage work in progress (WIP) at the individual and organizational levels.
  C. Use a minimum viable product (MVP) to test and discover which features to schedule when and what to fail early.
  D. Use a product backlog of the functionalities and features required to provide the expected business benefit.
  D. Use a product backlog of the functionalities and features required to provide the expected business benefit.

• Question 2104:

  A project manager is assigned to a dental equipment development project that is in the middle of its design phase. After reviewing the project prototype, it is identified that a couple of requirements specifications are missing. Which action should the project manager take next?

  A. Discuss with the team and build a workaround plan to immediately deliver the pending requirements specifications.
  B. Ask the team to wait until they are able to update the requirements specifications.
  C. Prepare a change request for the change control board (CCB) to remove the missing requirements specifications.
  D. Meet with the development team to review and assess the requirements specifications.
  D. Meet with the development team to review and assess the requirements specifications.

• Question 2105:

  A new marketing vice president just joined a software startup and is concerned that the agile model does not provide the needed accountability for their role. What should the responsible project manager do to ensure the vice president is comfortable with the project meeting its agreements?

  A. Require proper approval of all requirements from the marketing vice president and formally document the agreements.
  B. Foster an environment of open communication where all parties can discuss issues and agree on objectives.
  C. Establish an executive review board where all stakeholders discuss and approve features and requirements.
  D. Leverage the use of the review/demo sessions with the vice president to acknowledge that the agreements were met.
  D. Leverage the use of the review/demo sessions with the vice president to acknowledge that the agreements were met.

• Question 2106:

  A project team member informs the project manager that a stakeholder is contacting the team member to request status updates. The team member is being distracted by these repeated requests, which are interfering with the completion of assigned tasks.

  What should the project manager do?

  A. Increase the frequency of updates given to this stakeholder.
  B. Inform the team member to stop sending any further updates to the stakeholder.
  C. Raise this issue to the project sponsor in the next project status review meeting.
  D. Review this stakeholder's communication requirements.
  D. Review this stakeholder's communication requirements.

• Question 2107:

  A project manager has decided to stop activities that do not add value to a project that has a risk of running over budget. A functional manager disagrees with this decision, especially when the team is performing product testing for highly sensitive end users. The functional manager escalated the issue to the project sponsor so that the team can resume activities.

  How should the project manager have handled the situation?

  A. Collaborated with the functional manager to determine which critical activities could be accommodated by the budget.
  B. Engaged with the project sponsor to ensure support for the project manager's decision.
  C. Conducted a meeting with the functional manager to explain why the activities needed to be stopped.
  D. Convinced the functional manager to stop the activities that will run beyond the budget.
  A. Collaborated with the functional manager to determine which critical activities could be accommodated by the budget.

• Question 2108:

  An IT project manager for a project that is 50% complete teams that a critical team member plans to relocate to another country soon. The team member is needed for the remainder of the project. How should the project manager improve team dynamics?

  A. Require that all team members be physically present for the weekly project review.
  B. Offer the team member an incentive to stay until the end of the project.
  C. Replace the team member with someone who has similar qualifications and is located closer.
  D. Set up a weekly video conference to monitor the progress of the team member's work.
  B. Offer the team member an incentive to stay until the end of the project.

• Question 2109:

  A project manager is working on multiple building construction projects using a predictive project management approach. Senior leadership within the organization is promoting the inclusion of more agile practices into the current project methodologies. The project sponsor now wants the projects to use more agile methodologies.

  Before mandating any agile methods to be used in a project, what should the project manager do first?

  A. Provide agile training to those who will be part of the project team.
  B. Shift all existing projects to agile methodologies with a strict timeline.
  C. Pause the current projects to align them to the new agile cadence.
  D. Assess the organizational culture and readiness for the transformation.
  D. Assess the organizational culture and readiness for the transformation.

• Question 2110:

  A project manager is assigned to lead a newly formed agile team. The functional manager has assigned tasks to team members, but the team members do not feel empowered. How can the project manager promote empowerment and accountability among the team?

  A. Assign the tasks individually based on the role of the team member to ensure expertise on the subject.
  B. Encourage and assign the team to perform demos of their products or software with the customers
  C. Give the team autonomy to make their own decisions on how to perform the tasks.
  D. Encourage the team to keep the product owner involved when choosing ways to resolve the given task
  C. Give the team autonomy to make their own decisions on how to perform the tasks.